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15 Jul

Alleged Pixel 9 and Pixel 9 XL leak shows a redesigned camera bar

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We’re less than a month away from the next Made by Google event, and we may already know what one of the marquee announcements will look like. TikTok user pixo_unpacking (via YTechB) posted videos over the weekend of apparent pre-production samples of the Pixel 9 and Pixel 9 XL.The phones in the video have different backs: a glossy finish on the standard Pixel 9’s rear and a matte one on the larger Pixel XL’s. 9to5Google notes that they appear to include rear-panel etchings Google uses for prototypes, although they’re mostly covered in the clips by labels.Based on the video, the…

15 Jul

The Hidden Ties Between Google and Amazon’s Project Nimbus and Israel’s Military

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That appears to still include the IDF. WIRED identified several Israeli government statements and documents published since 2022 that confirm the IDF’s continued involvement with Project Nimbus, although they do not provide details of the tools and capabilities it uses.For instance, a government document published on June 15, 2022, that outlines the scope of the project, says "The Ministry of Defense and the IDF” will get a dedicated “digital marketplace” of services they can access under Project Nimbus.In July 2022, The Intercept also reported on training documents and videos provided to Nimbus users in the Israeli government that revealed some…

11 Jul

Google DeepMind’s Chatbot-Powered Robot Is Part of a Bigger Revolution

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In a cluttered open-plan office in Mountain View, California, a tall and slender wheeled robot has been busy playing tour guide and informal office helper—thanks to a large language model upgrade, Google DeepMind revealed today. The robot uses the latest version of Google’s Gemini large language model to both parse commands and find its way around.When told by a human “Find me somewhere to write,” for instance, the robot dutifully trundles off, leading the person to a pristine whiteboard located somewhere in the building.Gemini’s ability to handle video and text—in addition to its capacity to ingest large amounts of information…

10 Jul

Amazon Ramps Up Security to Head Off Project Nimbus Protests

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Amazon appeared to have significantly heightened security for its New York Amazon Web Services Summit on Wednesday, two weeks after a number of activists disrupted the Washington, DC, AWS Summit in protest against Project Nimbus, Amazon and Google’s $1.2 billion cloud computing contract with the Israeli government. The clampdown in New York quelled several activists’ plans to interrupt the keynote speech from Matt Wood, the vice president for AI products at AWS.Amazon allowed only approved individuals to attend the keynote speech. The activists, who had registered online to attend, all received emails ahead of the conference informing them that they…

10 Jul

Google brings passkeys to its Advanced Protection Program

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Google is adding support to its Advanced Protection Program. APP is the company's highest-level security option. It's intended for targets who could be at high risk of hacks or other scams, such as elected officials or human rights workers, and it previously required a physical security key to use. In Google's today, it acknowledged that the physical component made APP less feasible for some of the people who need the service most. Now, people who enroll in APP can opt for a passkey or for a physical key.Google was one of many tech companies to start offering passkeys for security,…

10 Jul

Google will give users free dark web monitoring

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Google announced in an update on Tuesday that its dark web monitoring service, also known as “dark web report,” will be made available to all Google users in 46 countries including the US and UK at the end of the month, according to Fast Company. The feature was previously only available to users with a Google One membership.The dark web report will be located in the “Results about you” page when you visit myactivity.google.com.Google’s “dark web report” feature will scan the seedy underbelly of algorithms that ended up on the wrong side of the digital tracks to determine if your…

09 Jul

How Disinformation From a Russian AI Spam Farm Ended up on Top of Google Search Results

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In the space of 24 hours, a piece of Russian disinformation about Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s wife buying a Bugatti car with American aid money traveled at warp speed across the internet. Though it originated from an unknown French website, it quickly became a trending topic on X and the top result on Google.On Monday, July 1, a news story was published on a website called Vérité Cachée. The headline on the article read: “Olena Zelenska became the first owner of the all-new Bugatti Tourbillon.” The article claimed that during a trip to Paris with her husband in June, the…

08 Jul

Google’s Nonconsensual Explicit Images Problem Is Getting Worse

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In early 2022, two Google policy staffers met with a trio of women victimized by a scam that resulted in explicit videos of them circulating online—including via Google search results. The women were among the hundreds of young adults who responded to ads seeking swimsuit models only to be coerced into performing in sex videos distributed by the website GirlsDoPorn. The site shut down in 2020, and a producer, a bookkeeper, and a cameraman subsequently pleaded guilty to sex trafficking, but the videos kept popping up on Google search faster than the women could request removals.The women, joined by an…

04 Jul

How Apple Intelligence’s Privacy Stacks Up Against Android’s ‘Hybrid AI’

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Yet Google and its hardware partners argue privacy and security are a major focus of the Android AI approach. VP Justin Choi, head of the security team, mobile eXperience business at Samsung Electronics, says its hybrid AI offers users “control over their data and uncompromising privacy.”Choi describes how features processed in the cloud are protected by servers governed by strict policies. “Our on-device AI features provide another element of security by performing tasks locally on the device with no reliance on cloud servers, neither storing data on the device nor uploading it to the cloud,” Choi says.Google says its data centers are designed…

03 Jul

The AI Revolution Will Not Be Monopolized

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Key Takeaways Open-source initiatives are pivotal in democratizing AI technology, offering transparent, extensible tools that empower users. The open-source community quickly turns new research into practical AI tools, making them stronger and more useful. Distilling large language models during development enables the creation of accurate, fast, and private task-specific models, reducing reliance on general-purpose APIs. Effective regulation should distinguish between human-facing AI applications and underlying machine-facing components, ensuring innovation while addressing concerns about data privacy, security, and equitable access. This is a summary of a talk that Ines Montani gave at QCon London in April 2024. Large language models…